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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognition-of-trusts-act-1987/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognition-of-trusts-act-1987/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/14",
  "legislation_title": "Recognition of Trusts Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognition-of-trusts-act-1987",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and application to the Crown.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Recognition of Trusts Act 1987.\n(2) This Act shall come into force on such date as the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Advocate may appoint by an order made by statutory instrument.\n(3) This Act binds the Crown.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power of appointment conferred by s. 3(2) fully exercised: 1.8.1987 appointed by S.I. 1987/1177"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/14/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:52:48.052380+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}